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They called it Sunday. Solan Vale was seventeen, in a drainage cut behind a reservoir fence in New Jersey, when he smoked something that had been sprayed with something else. For ninety seconds he understood that he was not walking east. The ground was going west underneath him, and he was the only thing in the frame that was not moving. It was not a hallucination. Nothing was there that was not there. It was a legitimate description of exactly the same facts, and no experiment can tell you which frame is the true one. Then it faded, and he was fine for nine years.

«Si existió Madrid en tiempo de los romanos y, como se ha pretendido, fue municipio de alguna importancia; si recibió en ellos la sagrada luz del Evangelio, viniendo a predicarle el Apóstol Santiago o alguno de sus compañeros; si fue por entonces ensanchada la población y fortificada con sólidos muros, y vio nacer dentro de ellos, como se ha defendido, a San Melquiades y San Dámaso, papas, y morir en el martirio a San Ginés y otros en defensa de la fe, ¿cómo, pues, se llamaba esta población, que ya vemos que no era Mantua y que tampoco está señalada en el Itinerario de Antonio Pío con los nomb

Sei diskret, loyal und enttäusch ihn niemals ... Er ist der Lehrer meines Bruders. Wir sind uns zum ersten Mal am Elternsprechtag begegnet, sind uns auf einem Konzert nähergekommen und haben uns an einem Wochenende in Italien verliebt. Der erste Kuss war sanft, der erste Sex perfekt. Nun bin...

Sei diskret, loyal und enttäusch ihn niemals ... Ein Tag der für mich in Italien, neben dem schönsten Mann der Welt begonnen hat, endet in einer Nacht, die mich vollkommen verschlingt. Fetisch-Lektionen die mich überfordern, eine Tube Gleitgel, die mich überfordert - eine Escort zu sein, war nie schwieriger. Auch weil das zwischen mir und meinen Agentur-Bossen plötzlich 'enger' wird, als ich jemals gedacht hätte. Die Männer, die hinter dem Mythos 'Evig Roses' stehen privat kennenzulernen ist ein Privileg. Und stürzt mich ins Chaos.

You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and Off-Broadway with gravitas. It reported on the AIDS crisis with urgency and seriousness when...

A witch invitation. One letter. One chance to belong. I'm nobody special. Not in my town. Not in my family. Not in the life I've spent years trying to survive. It's a quiet existence. A lonely one. Just me, trying to make it through another day and pretending it doesn't bother me that everyone else seems to have a place where they belong. That is, until the letter arrives. Thornhaven. The academy hidden beyond the ordinary world. A place filled with dark secrets, ancient magical mysteries, and students who seem to know more than they're willing to say.

In his world, he was the last remaining alchemist, one of the few survivors living amidst the ruins of a once-great civilization. Refusing to give up on life, but seeing that nothing could save his home, he challenged himself to find a way out of such an inhospitable place. After years of dedicated research, he devised a ritual to transport himself to another world. But the outcome was far from anticipated. Instead of mere displacement, he underwent a rebirth. He ended up in a new body, in a new world, surrounded by new threats lurking around every corner.

Harriet Vanger desapareció hace treinta y seis años en una isla sueca propiedad de su poderosa familia. A pesar del despliegue policial, no se encontró ni rastro de la muchacha. ¿Se escapó? ¿Fue secuestrada? ¿Asesinada? El caso está cerrado y los detalles olvidados. Pero su tío Henrik...

A fascinating exploration of how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying—and how these fundamental functions could help save us from climate catastrophe. If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and...

An Omega seeking her protection, three Alphas willing to do anything to protect them both. Could these men be what Dream and Beau really need? Dream loves her job at Haze. She's got decent bosses, the pay is amazing, and she gets plenty of opportunities to eye up her favorite, Titan-sized member...

Florenz 1478. Nach dem Mord an Giuliano de' Medici beginnt eine erbarmungslose Säuberung, während die Pazzi ums Überleben kämpfen. In dieser aufgewühlten Stadt trifft Lyana, Tochter der Aphrodite, verspätet ein und gerät mit ihren Gefährten zwischen die Fronten einer Macht, die keine...

The world is full of gifted individuals, each with their own unique abilities. But a world like that is never going to stay stable. And these gifted people aren't welcoming to newcomers who have the power to block others' abilities and take on the powerful organizations that pull all the strings...

This is a book about how to take working life in new directions – how to negotiate the labyrinth of choices, how to think about personal ambitions and motivations, and ultimately how to take concrete steps to finding a fulfilling career. It is a self-help book with a difference. Standard...

Ya conoces esta historia. Una chica cubierta de cenizas. Un príncipe en un baile. Una zapatilla de cristal que encaja… perfectamente. Pero algunas historias nunca fueron hechas para ser suaves. Ella ha pasado su vida siendo ignorada — útil, obediente, invisible en una casa que nunca fue realmente suya. Ha aprendido a moverse en silencio, a resistir, a sobrevivir.

Wenn die Vergangenheit zurückschlägt Der einstige Kriminalpolizist Schulz ist am Ende: von seiner Frau verlassen, von einem Schlaganfall gezeichnet, vorzeitig pensioniert. Morgens schafft er es kaum noch aus dem Bett. Bis ihn an einem düsteren Herbstnachmittag ein verzweifelter Hilferuf erreicht. Ein mysteriöser Vermisstenfall hält ein entlegenes Dorf in Atem. Schulz kennt den Ort nur zu gut. Die Hoffnung, ihn nie wieder betreten zu müssen, zerplatzt. Ohne zu zögern, kehrt er zurück.

You’ve heard this story before. A girl in ashes. A prince at a ball. A glass slipper that fits… perfectly. But some stories were never meant to be gentle. Ella has spent her life being overlooked —useful, obedient, invisible in a house that was never truly hers. She has learned how to move quietly, how to endure, how to survive. What she has never learned… is how to be seen. Until the invitation arrives. The ball is not what the city believes it to be. It is not romance. Not celebration. Not chance. It is selection. A room filled with women dressed to be admired.

When floods cut off the ground paths of Rainshadow Forest, the inventive Sunvine monkey troop builds a network of bridges across the canopy. The bridges save lives and transform travel, trade, and communication. But as the network expands, tolls exclude poor animals, deer lose influence, vines are overharvested, birds lose quiet nesting space, and young monkeys forget how to travel on the ground. Through one continuous story, Maro, Lira, ambitious Tavi, observant Nima, and Grandmother Suri work with deer, foxes, tortoises, owls, squirrels, beavers, boars, bats, birds, and many other creatures.

Sei diskret, loyal und enttäusch ihn niemals ... Mein Name ist Emma und ich kann keine Rose mehr sein. Die Zeit als Escort bei Evig Roses hat mein Leben verändert, aber das laute Chaos jagt mich durch eine Nacht, in der nicht nur meine Zukunft auf dem Spiel steht. Mich von dem mächtigen...

A thirty-nine-day war between the United States and Iran ends the way modern wars end now: not in surrender, but in a memorandum. The guns go silent. The money is promised. The world exhales. Buried within the language of the peace are nineteen words that quietly abandon the people who believed the bombing meant deliverance. In Washington, a small policy institute that has spent its life describing the world decides, for the first time, to act on it, and learns that the line between analysis and operation, once crossed, cannot be uncrossed.

Como levar a vida profissional para novas direções? O desejo por um trabalho gratificante é uma das grandes aspirações dos tempos modernos, e este livro aborda os caminhos possíveis para realizar esse objetivo. Ele explora as contradições que cada um enfrenta para ter dinheiro e...